 Frozen capillary waves on glass surfaces: an AFM studyT. Sarlat, A. Lelarge, E. Søndergård and D. Vandembroucq () The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, 2006, vol. 54, issue 1, 121-126 Abstract: Using atomic force microscopy on silica and float glass surfaces, we give evidence that the roughness of melted glass surfaces can be quantitatively accounted for by frozen capillary waves. In this framework the height spatial correlations are shown to obey a logarithmic scaling law; the identification of this behaviour allows to estimate the ratio kT F /πγ where k is the Boltzmann constant, γ the interface tension and T F the temperature corresponding to the “freezing” of the capillary waves. Variations of interface tension and (to a lesser extent) temperatures of annealing treatments are shown to be directly measurable from a statistical analysis of the roughness spectrum of the glass surfaces. Copyright EDP Sciences/Società Italiana di Fisica/Springer-Verlag 2006 Keywords: 68.35.Ct Interface structure and roughness; 61.43.Fs Glasses; 68.03.Cd Surface tension and related phenomena; 68.37.Ps Atomic force microscopy (AFM) (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:eurphb:v:54:y:2006:i:1:p:121-126 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00420-6 Access Statistics for this article The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems is currently edited by P. Hänggi and Angel Rubio More articles in The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems from Springer, EDP Sciences |
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